A new discourse of trade: wherein are recommended. Several weighty points; Relating to Companies of merchants. The act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our Woollen manufactures. The balance of trade, and nature of plantations; with their consequences, in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per cent. is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants, for determining controversies relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferring of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet. To which is added, A small treatise against usury, by the same author.
- Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.
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- M.DCC.LI. [1751]
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Discourse about trade
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Glasgow : printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis, M.DCC.LI. [1751]
Physical description
xxix,[1],184p ; 80.
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Edition
The fifth edition.
References note
ESTC T89154
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.